Word: wield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over and above the businessman at the "Bee" School, there is a small smart set who, doffing the green eye shade for a few brief hours, wield the quill for relaxation. The result is four pages of chatter and patter, in the entrepreneurial manner, labelled. The Harbus News, Get it-Har....bus? Well, these journalists didn't like the monicker any better than the next Better Business Bureau...
...protection, that the West was weak and treacherous (Munich was not forgotten). Many Czech voters agreed; but though they voted Red they would not be willing to go along with a totalitarian state on the Soviet model. The Communist electoral victory was still impressive. In the Assembly they can wield a slim majority (152 seats over 148) through their close alliance with Prime Minister Zdenek Fierlinger's Social Democrats...
...seek diversion and spiritual sustenance some place "far from the madding crowd." To this end, he has, as he puts it, a retreat in the salt marshes, away from all such marks of civilization as the telephone. Thus refreshed, he is always ready to come forth and wield a salty tongue or tell a salty story about roommates, draft boards, or English kings...
...issue of May 7, you state: "Wars and rumors of wars can be eliminated by nothing short of an international state with world wide citizenship..." You state further: "Gradually, as the nations acquire more and more trust in it, U. N. can wield ever increasing power...
...best the nations are willing to accept. If it exercises its limited powers fairly and well, U.N. can create opinion favorable to an international government and can demonstrate that it is capable of assuming greater responsibilities. Gradually, as the nations acquire more and more trust in it, U.N. can wield ever increasing power. This development can be hastened by intelligent discussion and criticism, but not by the ill-reasoned carping or unqualified disparagement that is currently popular among certain fanatic internationalists...